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alexandraerin) wrote2013-08-11 12:26 pm
alexandraerin) wrote2013-08-11 12:26 pm
Well, I'd hoped to be able to wake up today and announce that TOMU book 2 is on sale on Amazon...
...but today, for the first time ever, their review process ended with them sending me a note asking me to please confirm if I really, really, truly, truly own the rights to this thing or else mark that I think it's in the public domain and explain why.
I'm not too surprised by this, because the legal name on my account doesn't quite match the public use-name that is also my pen name, and also large swathes of text in the manuscript can be found by Googling, because they've also been published online. By me. I don't know if they do random web searches for text in the book or what, but it wouldn't surprise me.
But the weird thing is that this is the third thing I've published from them that fits the same criteria (names don't match, text online) and the first time this has happened. Of course with the volume of stuff submitted to Amazon I imagine there's a randomized element to how much scrutiny the review process involves.
Still kind of weird and mildly frustrating, and mildly worrying. The instructions said that if I did in fact own the rights then all I need to do is submit it again. Basically, make the same assertion that I hold the publishing rights.
So it's probably not a big deal. But since the Kindle store is a big chunk of my sales money and the biggest source of sales to new readers, any kind of hitch with them makes me nervous.
I'm not too surprised by this, because the legal name on my account doesn't quite match the public use-name that is also my pen name, and also large swathes of text in the manuscript can be found by Googling, because they've also been published online. By me. I don't know if they do random web searches for text in the book or what, but it wouldn't surprise me.
But the weird thing is that this is the third thing I've published from them that fits the same criteria (names don't match, text online) and the first time this has happened. Of course with the volume of stuff submitted to Amazon I imagine there's a randomized element to how much scrutiny the review process involves.
Still kind of weird and mildly frustrating, and mildly worrying. The instructions said that if I did in fact own the rights then all I need to do is submit it again. Basically, make the same assertion that I hold the publishing rights.
So it's probably not a big deal. But since the Kindle store is a big chunk of my sales money and the biggest source of sales to new readers, any kind of hitch with them makes me nervous.